Now he may not be perfect, and he may have made mistakes, but Mike Wigston is a bloody good officer, IMHO, and I've met and chatted with every CAS since Pete Squire, and even a few before that (Spotswood, Cameron, Beetham, Harding and Graydon). He's absolutely in command of his brief in a way that few other CASs have been, and he's relaxed, confident, engaging and charismatic, personable and likeable. I have no doubt at all that he works hard to do his best for the service, but he also works hard to fulfil the directives that he's given by his political masters, and I suspect that is why so much effort has gone into the D&I stuff.
Seeing him sneered at by lesser men, from behind the anonymity of PPRuNe user names just feels a bit off, frankly.